On edge [[electronic resource] ] : the crisis of contemporary Latin American culture / / George Yúdice, Jean Franco, Juan Flores, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/098
• Soggetto topico: Privatization - Social aspects - Latin America; Intercultural communication - Social aspects - Latin America; Culture diffusion - Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Cultural policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: YúdiceGeorge FloresJuan <1943-> FrancoJean
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Postmodernity and Transnational Capitalism in Latin America; Cultural Reconversion; Liberalism and Authority: The Case of Mario Vargas Llosa; Going Public: Reinhabiting the Private; ""The Other Side of the Process"": Racial Formation in Contemporary Brazil; Theater after the Revolution: Refiguring the Political in Cuba and Nicaragua; Bad Poetry, Worse Society; Cultural Redemocratization: Argentina, 1978-89; Cortijo's Revenge: New Mappings of Puerto Rican Culture; Interview with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto: The Chicano Movement in a Multicultural/ Multinational Society ; ContributorsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: ""On the Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture lays out the parameters of the issues: ethnicity, race, oppositional culture (popular), liberal democracy, the discrediting of the Left, and the women's movement. In total, this collection provides a good overview of significant issues in Latin American thought."" Journal of Communication. ""These essays by authors from a wide range of fields and nationalities explore problems and possibilities that the postmodernism debate poses to the reconfigurations of cultural identity in different Latin American contexts."" Diacritics. ""On
• Titolo autorizzato: On edge
• ISBN: 0-8166-8375-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451511303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 4.